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Somehow Clinging
Somehow Clinging by Michael Doyle Slipped halfway down The edge of the rabbit hole The Cheshire Cat in his crown Ripped apart his soul Seeking to find a path through To the center of the maze Somewhere between half to … Continue reading
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Tagged Believer, Between, Center, Certain, Cheshire Cat, Clinging, Crown, Daze, Debt, Deception, Edge, Fortune Tellers, Garden's Wall, Halfway, Hatter, Humility, Ledge, Manipulate, Maze, Misconception, No Longer Pure, Path, Pays the Price, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Rabbit Hole, Real, Recall, Remain, Rusty Chains, Sinless Savior, Somehow, Soul, Spin Doctors, Story Sold, Strain, Suffer, Think and Feel, Twist of Fate, Twisted, World
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In Gratitude For Santa’s Spirit
In Gratitude For Santa’s Spiritby Michael Doyle”Dear Santa”, that’s how it all beganSealed with love as only a child canWhat he wanted most of all was familyThat and a meaningful Christmas treeHe grew up endlessly chasing a little cheerIn the … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Badgered, Beaten Down, Began, Blues, Busy, Cheer, Child, Christmas, Christmas Cheer, Christmas Tree, Commericialization, Crown, Days, Dear Santa, Disappear, Dizzy, Dreams, Elves, Endlessly Chasing, Expectations, Family, Fascination, Frenzied, Give Me Give Me, Gladness, Gloves On, Going Through the Motions, Gratification, Gratitude, Greed, Happy News, Here and Now, Hustle and Bustle, Important Thing, Jaded World, Jingle, Joy, Joyfully, Magic, Meaning Got Lost, Meaningful, Never Allow, Never Be Allowed, New York City, North Pole, Not Just Once Upon, Notions, Our Children, Overworked, Photographs, Platitude, Poem, Poetry, Press On, Real Meaning, Reflection, Remember, Remember What Matters, Santa, Sealed With Love, Season's Greetings, Shatter, Snow, Spirit, Spirit of Christmas, Stress, Suit Up, Tale, Tinsel, To Be Gone, Top of the World, Unsatisfied, Whole, World Apart, Year After Year, Yesterday
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On Autumnal Equinox 2020 – Happy First Day Of Autumn
On Autumnal Equinox 2020by Michael DoyleThe world speaks of falling backThe world thinks on falling backYet, it is that as Fall comes to lockWe enter our Southward EquinoxThe Sun has shifts its celestial destinationNo longer balanced in the Libra constellationIt … Continue reading
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Tagged Algnment, Alone, Ancient, Autumn, Autumn Leaves, Blessing, Cardinal Point, Celestial, Change, Climatic, Colors, Constellation, Crown, Equinox, Expect, Fall Back, Falling Down, Farewell, Festival, Fragment, Gain, Good Cheer, Ground, Harvest Home, Holy, Hour, Libra, Life, Lock, Midpoint, Neglect, Oak King, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Seasons, Segment, Shadow, Shelter, Southward Equinox, Speak, Summer, Sun, Thanksgivign, Think, Turn, Virgo, Wane, Wheel of the Year, World
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Covid and the Constitution
Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse
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Red Hot Queen
Red Hot Queenby Michael DoyleShe would tell her kingOf her fanciful desire to ruleWhile she’d laughingly singAbout beaches and poolsAnd he would look in her eyesAnd without semblance of doubtHe would smile and realizeThat they might work it outSo long … Continue reading
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Tagged Beaches, Beguile, Crown, Desire, Doubt, Eyes, Flower, Frown, Happiness, He, Her Kiss, His Side, King, Laugh, Life, Long Live the Queen, Look, Movie Scene, Need, Photograph, Played Out, Poem, Poetry, Pools, Pride, Queen, Reach, Realize, Red Hot, Rule, Semblence, She, Sing, Smile, Title, Vital, Work It Out
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Arcade Mania
Arcade Maniaby Michael DoyleRemembering back to the 80s whenI couldn’t wait to put another quarter inA video star in the dark arcadeWas a revolution ready madeMy spaces were invaded rows at a timeWhen I wasn’t watching ectoplasmic slimeAtari-ized as we … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, Again and Again, Ages, Appeal, Arcade, Atari, Bangles, Boom, Bounce, Bundle, Bust, Concept, Continuoous, Crown, Cuteness, Dark, Depths, Design, Doubt, Electronic, Etoplasmic, Evolution, Flow, Forgot, Game, Glitz, Glow, Gone, Good Times, HIgh Scores, Hungry, Ignore, Impossible, Invade, Kings, Leverage, Magic, Mania, Moved On, Neglect, New Tricks, PacMan, Patterns, People, Photograph, Pizza, Play, Poem, Poetry, Quarter, Ready Made, Recall, Refine, Relic, Remember, Revelation, Revere, Reverse Engineering, Revolution, Rows, Saucy, Shot, Sketch, Slice, Slime, Society, Space, Speculate, Starcade, Strategy, Technology, Theories, Tilt, Trust, Urge, Video Star, Visualize, Wait, Walls, Women, World Changing
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Walking In Our Blissfulness
Based in part on Psalm 111: Walking In Our Blissfulness by Michael Doyle Prayed by the number laid out My knowledge of God removes all doubt Staying in touch with God’s family Renewed and restored by our community Our heroes … Continue reading
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Tagged All Around, Bliss, Blissfulness, By Number, Community, Congregation, Courage, Crown, Days, Dedication, Doubt, Falls, Finding Our Way, Front Line, God, God's Family, Hearts, Heroes, His Presence, Holy, In Touch, Joy and Pain, Knowledge, Laid Out, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Psalms, Rage, Rain, Raising, Renew, Sacred Ground, Stillnees, Storms, Thankful, Thousand Places, True and Devoted, Trust, Walk Through Life, Walking, Worship, Yesterday and Tomorrow
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Lifted Song
A sort of song of praise: Lifted Song by Michael Doyle With a lifted song I find myself drawn To where I belong Awakening with the dawn I’ve seen all that you’ve done Mystified by the glory of the Son … Continue reading
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Tagged Awaken, Belong, Change, Crown, Dawn, Days, Done, Doubt, Down, Drawn, Each Moment, Everything, Faith, Flood, Glory, Heart, Lift, Mean, Myself, Mystify, Open, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pours Out, Praise, Proclaim, Reason, Release, Sacred Place, Seen, Shine, Sing, Son, Song, Songs, Space, Story, Victory, Worship
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